L5: Impact assessment

Describing the environmental consequences of the environmental loads of a technical system, the principles and methods available for doing so. Understanding this phase is important when you start interpreting the results of your project. This is necessary as background for the third project supervision meeting (PS3).

Literature for L5:

• Curran, M. A. (2015) Life Cycle Assessment Student Handbook. Chapter 4.
• PRé Consultants (2013) SimaPro 7 Introduction to LCA. Chapter 4.1 - 4.4.
• Finnveden, G., Hauschild, M., Ekvall, T., Guinée, J., Heijungs, R., Hellweg, S., Koehler, A. ,Pennington, D., and Suh, S. (2009) Recent developments in Life Cycle Assessment. Journal of Environmental Management 91, 1–21.
• Hauschild, M., Goedkoop, M., Guinée, J., Heijungs, R., Huijbregts, M., Jolliet, O., Margni, M., De Schryver, A., Humbert, S., Laurent, A., Sala, S., and Pant, R. (2013) Identifying best existing practice for characterization modeling in life cycle impact assessment. International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 18:683–697.